On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 at 08:59, Andreas Heckel via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently faced some error messages when using git submodules. I found, that > Cygwin's git works nicely on its own. But when I have MSYS binary paths in my > environment, Cygwin's git finds the msys gettext and envsubst binary and > tries to use it, resulting in error messages (see below). I did solve the > issue, by installing Cygwin's gettext (which git does not seem to be > requiring). > I write, because I found it somewhat odd, that Cygwin's git is not dependent > on gettext, but uses it, if it finds it somewhere in the path environment. > Just to emphasize, in my Cygwin environment all Cygwin paths come first. So > it was only using the wrong msys binary, because there was none in Cygwin. > Is this behaviour expected and intended or could it be mitigated during > installation somehow?
This sounds like a missing dependency in Cygwin's Git package. I'm slightly surprised – the package is included in the build requirements, and cygport is normally pretty good at detecting runtime dependencies in this sort of circumstance – but I'll get it fixed as soon as I manage to get a new Git release out. That's going to happen Any Day Now, although it has been Any Day Now for a few months at this point thanks to a variety of other life issues taking priority… Adam -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
